hmm ive looked but havent found anything tht would disable it! any advice would be appreciated As for the load up time, i was talking for the security pop ups and not its actually start up. Also ive heard that Win7 has much faster transfer file time unlike vista and that the overall speed of Win7 is much faster. for me a OS has to be fairly fast, as i play alot of games, and use my comp heavily! i feel vista just aint up to the task, XP was and ive heard win7 is wot vista should have been!! to me vista is just very complicated, not very user friendly!